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Mississippi - - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Mississippi - - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

A classic picture of bygone days and foregone waysMississippi: The WPA Guide to the Magnolia State was part of a nationwide series of guides in the 1930s that created work during the Depression for artists, writers, teachers, librarians, and other professionals. This classic book is a lively collaborative project that covers a distinct era in Mississippi from the hills to the Delta to the Gulf Coast. Even today this guide is an engaging look at the Magnolia State and includes driving tours featuring many of the state''s treasures.Along these old roads, the heart of Mississippi comes to life. The guide explores Deep South folkways, frontier hamlets, vanishing homesteads, burgeoning communities, and the local points of pride. In a way that perhaps may never be duplicated, these authors capture state heritage, portray the trying economic systems and challenges Mississippi faced, and hint of a revolution in roadways and in mobility for its citizens. An introduction by Robert S. McElvaine places this historic volume in a modern context.Robert S. McElvaine is chair of the history department at Millsaps College. He is also the author or editor of a number of books on history and American culture.

DKK 312.00
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Full Court Press - Jason A. Peterson - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Full Court Press - Jason A. Peterson - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

"The celebrity phenomena of, say, LeBron James and Stephen Curry owe their possibility to a roster of names few outside of the state of Mississippi have ever heard: Coolidge Ball, Wilbert Jordan Jr., Larry Fry, and Jerry Jenkins. These barrier breakers integrated the hardwoods of the Magnolia State against the entrenched and well-funded wishes of the state''s power elites. It''s a little-known story. Fortunately, Jason A. Peterson decided to tell it and to ground that story in the archives of Mississippi''s many daily and weekly newspapers. The result is an important chronicle compellingly told. African American history, which is to say American history, is better off for it."-Brian Carroll, author of The Black Press and Black Baseball, 1915-1955: A Devil''s Bargain and When to Stop the Cheering? The Black Press, the Black Community, and the Integration of Professional Baseball"This well-researched investigation is a welcome contribution to the ever-expanding body of scholarship documenting Mississippi''s long struggle for civil rights. Studies examining the Magnolia State''s closed society ethos have rarely employed popular culture as a tool for unlocking meaning in the state''s long and complex struggle over black freedom. The book clearly displays that the saliency of both popular sports and the newsprint media covering them deserve equal recognition next to the state''s voting booths, picket lines, and lunch counters as sights for contested meaning in Mississippi''s battle over integration. With insightful analysis and carefully crafted argument, Jason Peterson reminds us that sports and their media culture have long been a window through which both Mississippi and the nation perceive their ideas about race and inclusion."-Kevin D. Greene, co-director of the Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage at the University of Southern MississippiJason A. Peterson is assistant professor of communication at Charleston Southern University. A former journalist and public relations practitioner, Peterson''s work has been published in American Journalism: A Journal of Media History and in the book From Jack Johnson to LeBron James: Sports, Media, and the Color Line.

DKK 858.00
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Hometown Mississippi - Melody Golding - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Hometown Mississippi - Melody Golding - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Hometown Mississippi offers an intimate glimpse into thirty Mississippi towns through the lens of author, photographer, and artist Melody Golding. In this stunning collection, Golding captures the essence of her state in the summer of 2024, blending photography and personal exploration to create a colorful and contemporary portrait of Mississippi. From the hills in the north to the sandy shores of the south, from the Piney Woods to the Mississippi River towns and the storied Mississippi Delta, Golding's journey takes readers off the beaten path, away from interstates, and along the winding back roads and highways that once served as the main thoroughfares for these unique small-town destinations. Each town Golding visits has its own special attractions, including historical landmarks, cultural offerings, recreational spaces, colleges and universities, scenic natural beauty, tourist attractions, and ties to some of the many celebrities Mississippi calls its own. All are distinct, yet all share a common pride in their local identity. Within the pages of this book, more than fifty Mississippians reflect on their connection to the Magnolia State, offering heartfelt insights into the experiences, traditions, and character of their communities. With warmth and generosity, Mississippians ranging from Morgan Freeman to Marty Stuart to Mississippi Senator Roger Wicker, from university presidents to local business owners, share what it means to call Mississippi home.

DKK 384.00
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No Small Thing - William H. Lawson - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

No Small Thing - William H. Lawson - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

The Mississippi Freedom Vote in 1963 consisted of an integrated citizens' campaign for civil rights. With candidates Aaron Henry, a black pharmacist from Clarksdale for governor, and Reverend Ed King, a college chaplain from Vicksburg for lieutenant governor, the Freedom Vote ran a platform aimed at obtaining votes, justice, jobs, and education for blacks in the Magnolia State.Through speeches, photographs, media coverage, and campaign materials, William H. Lawson examines the rhetoric and methods of the Mississippi Freedom Vote. Lawson looks at the vote itself rather than the already much-studied events surrounding it, an emphasis new in scholarship. Even though the actual campaign was carried out from October 13 to November 4, the Freedom Vote's impact far transcended those few weeks in the fall. Campaign manager Bob Moses rightly calls the Freedom Vote "one of the most unique voting campaigns in American history." Lawson demonstrates that the Freedom Vote remains a key moment in the history of civil rights in Mississippi, one that grew out of a rich tradition of protest and direct action.Though the campaign is overshadowed by other major events in the arc of the civil rights movement, Lawson regards the Mississippi Freedom Vote as an early and crucial exercise of citizenship in a lineage of racial protest during the 1960s. While more attention has been paid to the March on Washington and the protests in Birmingham or to the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the Freedom Summer murders, this book yields a long-overdue, in-depth analysis of this crucial movement.

DKK 858.00
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Full Court Press - Jason A. Peterson - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Full Court Press - Jason A. Peterson - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

During the civil rights era, Mississippi was caught in the hateful embrace of a white caste system that enforced segregation. Rather than troubling the Closed Society, state news media, on the whole, marched in lockstep or, worse, promoted the continued subservience of blacks. Surprisingly, challenges from Mississippi's college basketball courts questioned segregation's validity and its gentleman's agreement that prevented college teams in the Magnolia State from playing against integrated foes.Mississippi State University stood at the forefront of this battle for equality in the state with the school's successful college basketball program. From 1959 through 1963, the Maroons won four Southeastern Conference basketball championships and created a dynasty in the South's preeminent college athletic conference. However, in all four title-winning seasons, the press feverishly debated the merits of a National Collegiate Athletic Association appearance for the Maroons, culminating in Mississippi State University's participation in the integrated 1963 NCAA Championship. Full Court Press examines news articles, editorials, and columns published in Mississippi's newspapers during the eight-year existence of the gentleman's agreement that barred black participation, the challenges posed by Mississippi State University, and the subsequent integration of college basketball. While the majority of reporters opposed any effort to integrate, a segment of sports journalists, led by the charismatic Jimmie McDowell of the Jackson State Times , emerged as bold advocates for equality. Full Court Press highlights an ideological metamorphosis within the press during the civil rights movement. The media, which had long minimized the struggle of blacks, slowly transformed into an industry that considered the plight of black Mississippians on equal footing with whites.

DKK 312.00
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Behind the Rifle - Shelby Harriel - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Behind the Rifle - Shelby Harriel - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

During the Civil War, Mississippi''s strategic location bordering the Mississippi River and the state''s system of railroads drew the attention of opposing forces who clashed in major battles for control over these resources. The names of these engagements--Vicksburg, Jackson, Port Gibson, Corinth, Iuka, Tupelo, and Brice''s Crossroads--along with the narratives of the men who fought there resonate in Civil War literature. However, Mississippi''s chronicle of military involvement in the Civil War is not one of men alone. Surprisingly, there were a number of female soldiers disguised as males who stood shoulder to shoulder with them on the firing lines across the state. Behind the Rifle: Women Soldiers in Civil War Mississippi is a groundbreaking study that discusses women soldiers with a connection to Mississippi--either those who hailed from the Magnolia State or those from elsewhere who fought in Mississippi battles. Readers will learn who they were, why they chose to fight at a time when military service for women was banned, and the horrors they experienced. Included are two maps and over twenty period photographs of locations relative to the stories of these female fighters along with images of some of the women themselves. The product of over ten years of research, this work provides new details of formerly recorded female fighters, debunks some cases, and introduces over twenty previously undocumented ones. Among these are women soldiers who were involved in such battles beyond Mississippi as Shiloh, Antietam, and Gettysburg. Readers will also find new documentation regarding female fighters held as prisoners of war in such notorious prisons as Andersonville.

DKK 231.00
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A Place Called Mississippi - - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

A Place Called Mississippi - - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

An anthology of readings that reveal the mind and the character of the Magnolia StateFilled with serendipitous connections and contrasts, this volume of Mississippiana covers four hundred years. It begins with a selection from "A Gentleman from Elvas," written in 1541, and ends with an essay the novelist Ellen Douglas wrote in 1996 on the occasion of the Atlanta Olympic games. In between is a chronology of some one hundred nonfictional narratives that portray the distinctiveness of life in Mississippi. Most are reprinted, but some are published here for the first time.Each section of this anthology reveals an aspect of Mississippi''s past or present.Here are narratives that depict the settlement of the land by pioneers, the lasting heritage of the Civil War, the pleasures and the pastimes of Mississippians, their food, art, rituals, and religion, the terrain and the travelers, and the conflicts that brought enormous changes to both the landscape and the population.In its wide cultural perspective A Place Called Mississippi includes an early description of the Chickasaws, a narrative of a former slave, "Soggy" Sweat''s famous "Whiskey Speech" on Prohibition, and an account of how W. C. Handy discovered the blues in a deserted train station in Tutwiler, Mississippi.Among the selections are narratives by Jefferson Davis, Belle Kearney, Walter Anderson, Ida B. Wells, Richard Wright, Craig Clai-borne, Richard Ford, William Faulkner, and Eudora Welty. Written by and about blacks, whites, Native Americans, and others, these fascinating accounts convey a variety of impressions about a real place and about real people whose colorful history is large, ever-changing, and ever-mystifying.Marion Barnwell is a professor of English at Delta State University.

DKK 276.00
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In the Shadows of the Big House - Stephen Small - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

In the Shadows of the Big House - Stephen Small - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

In the midst of calls for the removal of Confederate monuments across the South, tens of thousands of museums, buildings, and other historical sites currently comprise a tourist infrastructure of the southern heritage industry. Louisiana, one of the most prominent and frequently visited states that benefit from this tourism, has more than sixty heritage sites housed in former slave plantations. These sites contain the remains, restorations, reconstructions, and replicas of antebellum slave cabins and slave quarters. In the Shadows of the Big House: Twenty-First-Century Antebellum Slave Cabins and Heritage Tourism in Louisiana is the first book to tackle the role, treatment, and representation of slave cabins at plantation museum sites in contemporary heritage tourism. In this volume, author Stephen Small describes and analyzes sixteen twenty-first-century antebellum slave cabins currently located on three plantation museum sites in Natchitoches, Louisiana: Oakland Plantation, Magnolia Plantation Complex, and Melrose Plantation. Small traces the historical trajectory of plantations and slave cabins since the Civil War and explores what representations of slavery and slave cabins in these sites convey about the reconfiguration of the past and the rearticulation of history in the present. Considering such themes as the role of white ethnic identity in representations of elite whites and the extent and significance of Black voices and Black visions of representations of these plantations, Small asks what these sites reveal about social forgetting and social remembering throughout Louisiana and the South. He further explores the ways that gender structures the social organization of current sites and the role and influence of the state in the social organization and representations that prevail today.

DKK 769.00
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Reading Like a Girl - Sara K. Day - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Reading Like a Girl - Sara K. Day - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

How novels targeted at teens engage narrator and reader in intimate dramas of friendship, love, identity, and sexualityBy examining the novels of critically and commercially successful authors such as Sarah Dessen (Someone Like You), Stephenie Meyer (the Twilight series), and Laurie Halse Anderson (Speak), Reading Like a Girl explores the use of narrative intimacy as a means of reflecting and reinforcing larger, often contradictory, cultural expectations regarding adolescent women, interpersonal relationships, and intimacy. Reading Like a Girl explains the construction of narrator-reader relationships in recent American novels written about and marketed to adolescent women.Sara K. Day explains, though, that such levels of imagined friendship lead to contradictory cultural expectations for the young women so deeply obsessed with reading these novels. Day coins the term "narrative intimacy" to refer to the implicit relationship between narrator and reader that depends on an imaginary disclosure and trust between the story''s narrator and the reader. Through critical examination, the inherent contradictions between this enclosed, imagined relationship and the real expectations for adolescent women''s relations prove to be problematic.In many novels for young women, adolescent female narrators construct conceptions of the adolescent woman reader, constructions that allow the narrator to understand the reader as a confidante, a safe and appropriate location for disclosure. At the same time, such novels offer frequent warnings against the sort of unfettered confession the narrators perform. Friendships are marked as potential sites of betrayal and rejection. Romantic relationships are presented as inherently threatening to physical and emotional health. And so, the narrator turns to the reader for an ally who cannot judge. The reader, in turn, may come to depend upon narrative intimacy in order to vicariously explore her own understanding of human expression and bonds.Sara K. Day, Magnolia, Arkansas, is assistant professor of English at Southern Arkansas University. Her work has appeared in Studies of the Novel and North Carolina Literary Review.

DKK 312.00
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Reading Like a Girl - Sara K. Day - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Reading Like a Girl - Sara K. Day - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

How novels targeted at teens engage narrator and reader in intimate dramas of friendship, love, identity, and sexualityBy examining the novels of critically and commercially successful authors such as Sarah Dessen (Someone Like You), Stephenie Meyer (the Twilight series), and Laurie Halse Anderson (Speak), Reading Like a Girl explores the use of narrative intimacy as a means of reflecting and reinforcing larger, often contradictory, cultural expectations regarding adolescent women, interpersonal relationships, and intimacy. Reading Like a Girl explains the construction of narrator-reader relationships in recent American novels written about and marketed to adolescent women.Sara K. Day explains, though, that such levels of imagined friendship lead to contradictory cultural expectations for the young women so deeply obsessed with reading these novels. Day coins the term "narrative intimacy" to refer to the implicit relationship between narrator and reader that depends on an imaginary disclosure and trust between the story''s narrator and the reader. Through critical examination, the inherent contradictions between this enclosed, imagined relationship and the real expectations for adolescent women''s relations prove to be problematic.In many novels for young women, adolescent female narrators construct conceptions of the adolescent woman reader, constructions that allow the narrator to understand the reader as a confidante, a safe and appropriate location for disclosure. At the same time, such novels offer frequent warnings against the sort of unfettered confession the narrators perform. Friendships are marked as potential sites of betrayal and rejection. Romantic relationships are presented as inherently threatening to physical and emotional health. And so, the narrator turns to the reader for an ally who cannot judge. The reader, in turn, may come to depend upon narrative intimacy in order to vicariously explore her own understanding of human expression and bonds.Sara K. Day, Magnolia, Arkansas, is assistant professor of English at Southern Arkansas University. Her work has appeared in Studies of the Novel and North Carolina Literary Review.

DKK 858.00
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Ethnic Heritage in Mississippi - - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Ethnic Heritage in Mississippi - - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Ethnic Heritage in Mississippiedited by Barbara Carpenterwith essays by John H. Peterson, Jr., Jay K. Johnson, Patricia Galloway, Samuel J. Wells, Clara Sue Kidwell, Charles D. Lowery, Paul E. Hoffman, Robert S. Weddle, William Cash, Robert L. Jenkins, D. C. Young, and Stephen Young.A penetrating survey of the diverse ethnic heritage in the Magnolia StateMost portraits of Mississippi''s people seem to be done in black and white. Yet only a moment''s reflection and observation will indicate the inadequacy of such a limited palette. The first to populate this region were Native Americans-Choctaw, Chickasaw, Natchez, and others in even earlier periods. The predominant white Anglo-Scots-Irish population is enlivened by other European groups-colonial French and Spanish, later Yugoslavians, Italians-and the Mediterranean Greeks and Lebanese. Africans came from southern states to the east as well as through New Orleans from the Caribbean and many parts of Africa. The Chinese came to the Delta during Reconstruction, and more recently increasing numbers of Vietnamese have found their way to the Gulf Coast. Both groups from the Orient have prospered, as has a growing population of immigrants from India. A second influx of Hispanics from Cuba and other parts of Latin America has enriched the mixture.This study, published in association with the Mississippi Humanities Council, seeks to provide current scholarly approaches to an often neglected segment of Mississippi, dispelling the simplistic black-and-white myth and demonstrating the historic and pervasive influence of diverse ethnic groups on Mississippi culture in the twentieth century. Beginning with archeological knowledge of the original inhabitants and moving through history to the arrival of Europeans, Africans, and eventually Asians, the contributors to this volume chart the encounters and exchanges of every kind among these disparate peoples.The dominant theme throughout the essays is that of encounter-violent or friendly-followed by adjustment and adaptation. Issues of acculturation versus maintenance of separate cultural identity, the "melting pot" or the "tossed salad," continue to concern Mississippi''s citizens and reflect in the microcosm of this Deep South state a problem that may be the largest one facing this country in the next century.Barbara Carpenter is the director of the Mississippi Humanities Council.

DKK 312.00
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